Mixed Start to the Year for the TSP

The TSP started 2020 with a mix of gains and losses in January, with more of the latter than the former.

The international stock I fund dropped 2.73 percent while the small company stock S fund lost 0.62 percent and the large company stock C fund fell 0.04 percent; meanwhile the bond F fund gained 1.91 percent and the government securities G fund rose 0.17 percent.

January was a down month for the S&P 500 overall, which represents about 80% of U.S. stock market capitalization and is tracked by the C Fund. After a strong market rally from October through December of 2019 (and into the first half of January 2020), things have become quite choppy again during the second half of January with mixed economic data and everyone trying to guess the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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